Livre de la Genèse 38

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1 Dans ce temps-là Juda se sépara de ses frères et se rendit chez un certain Hira d’Adoullam.	1 About that time Judah parted from his brothers and pitched his tent near a certain Adullamite named Hirah.
2 Là il fit connaissance de la fille d’un Cananéen nommé Choua, il l’épousa et s’unit à elle.	2 There he met the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua, married her, and had relations with her.
3 Elle devint enceinte et donna le jour à un fils qu’elle appela Er.	3 She conceived and bore a son, whom she named Er.
4 De nouveau elle fut enceinte et donna le jour à un fils qu’elle appela Onan.	4 Again she conceived and bore a son, whom she named Onan.
5 Plus tard elle donna encore le jour à un fils qu’elle appela Chéla. Elle le mit au monde à Kézib.	5 Then she bore still another son, whom she named Shelah. They were in Chezib when he was born.
6 Juda prit pour son premier-né Er une femme du nom de Tamar.	6 Judah got a wife named Tamar for his first-born, Er.
7 Mais Er, le premier-né de Juda, déplut à Yahvé et Yahvé le fit mourir.	7 But Er, Judah's first-born, greatly offended the LORD; so the LORD took his life.
8 Juda dit alors à Onan: “Va vers la femme de ton frère et remplis envers elle ton devoir de beau-frère: donne un descendant à ton frère.”	8 Then Judah said to Onan, "Unite with your brother's widow, in fulfillment of your duty as brother-in-law, and thus preserve your brother's line."
9 Mais Onan savait que cet enfant ne serait pas pour lui, aussi, quand il s’unissait à la femme de son frère, il se retirait et se souillait à terre pour ne pas donner de descendance à son frère.	9 Onan, however, knew that the descendants would not be counted as his; so whenever he had relations with his brother's widow, he wasted his seed on the ground, to avoid contributing offspring for his brother.
10 En agissant ainsi il déplut à Yahvé qui le fit mourir lui aussi.	10 What he did greatly offended the LORD, and the LORD took his life too.
11 Alors Juda dit à sa belle-fille Tamar: “Retourne vivre chez ton père comme une veuve, le temps que mon fils Chéla ait grandi.” Il se disait en effet: “Je ne veux pas que celui-ci meure comme ses frères.” Tamar s’en retourna donc chez son père.	11 Thereupon Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Stay as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up"--for he feared that Shelah also might die like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father's house.
12 Après de longs jours, la femme de Juda, fille de Choua, mourut. Les jours de deuil étant passés, Juda monta à Timna avec Hira, son ami d’Adoullam, pour voir ses tondeurs de brebis.	12 Years passed, and Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah completed the period of mourning, he went up to Timnah for the shearing of his sheep, in company with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13 On l’annonça à Tamar: “Voici que ton beau-père monte à Timna pour tondre son petit bétail.”	13 When Tamar was told that her father-in-law was on his way up to Timnah to shear his sheep,
14 Aussitôt elle ôta ses habits de veuve, se couvrit d’un voile et, ainsi voilée, elle s’assit à l’entrée d’Énayim sur la route de Timna. C’est que Tamar voyait qu’on ne lui avait pas donné Chéla qui pourtant avait grandi.	14 she took off her widow's garb, veiled her face by covering herself with a shawl, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she was aware that, although Shelah was now grown up, she had not been given to him in marriage.
15 Quand Juda la vit avec son visage voilé, il la prit pour une prostituée.	15 When Judah saw her, he mistook her for a harlot, since she had covered her face.
16 Ne sachant pas que c’était sa belle-fille, il s’approcha d’elle sur la route et lui dit: “Laisse-moi coucher avec toi.” Elle lui répondit: “Que me donneras-tu pour coucher avec moi?”	16 So he went over to her at the roadside, and not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he said, "Come, let me have intercourse with you." She replied, "What will you pay me for letting you have intercourse with me?"
17 Il lui dit: “Je te donnerai un chevreau de mon troupeau.” Elle répondit: “Quel gage me donneras-tu en attendant de l’envoyer?”	17 He answered, "I will send you a kid from the flock." "Very well," she said, "provided you leave a pledge until you send it."
18 Juda lui dit: “Quel gage veux-tu que je te donne?” “Le sceau que tu portes au cou avec son cordon, répondit elle, ainsi que le bâton que tu as dans la main.” Il les lui donna et coucha avec elle: il la laissa enceinte.	18 Judah asked, "What pledge am I to give to you?" She answered, "Your seal and cord, and the staff you carry." So he gave them to her and had intercourse with her, and she conceived by him.
19 Quand elle s’en retourna, elle ôta son voile et reprit ses habits de veuve.	19 When she went away, she took off her shawl and put on her widow's garb again.
20 Juda envoya le chevreau par son ami d’Adoullam afin de reprendre les gages de la main de la femme, mais celui-ci ne la trouva pas.	20 Judah sent the kid by his friend the Adullamite to recover the pledge from the woman; but he could not find her.
21 Il interrogea les gens de l’endroit: “Où est la prostituée qu’on voyait sur la route à Énayim?” Ils répondirent: “Il n’y a jamais eu de prostituée ici!”	21 So he asked the men of the place, "Where is the temple prostitute, the one by the roadside in Enaim?" But they answered, "There has never been a temple prostitute here."
22 Il revint donc vers Juda et lui dit: “Je ne l’ai pas trouvée, et même les gens de l’endroit m’ont dit: Il n’y a jamais eu de prostituée ici.”	22 He went back to Judah and told him, "I could not find her; and besides, the men of the place said there was no temple prostitute there."
23 Juda lui répondit: “Qu’elle garde tout pour elle, cela vaut mieux pour nous que d’être tournés en ridicule. Tu ne l’as peut-être pas trouvée, mais moi, j’ai bien envoyé le chevreau!”	23 "Let her keep the things," Judah replied; "otherwise we shall become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her the kid, even though you were unable to find her."
24 Or voici que trois mois plus tard on avertit Juda: “Ta belle-fille Tamar s’est prostituée; la voilà même enceinte à la suite de sa prostitution.” Juda répondit: “Faites-la sortir et qu’elle soit brûlée!”	24 About three months later, Judah was told that his daughter-in-law Tamar had played the harlot and was then with child from her harlotry. "Bring her out," cried Judah; "she shall be burned."
25 Comme on l’emmenait, elle envoya dire à son beau-père: “Je suis enceinte de l’homme à qui appartiennent ces objets. Reconnais à qui appartiennent ce sceau et son cordon ainsi que ce bâton.”	25 But as they were bringing her out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "It is by the man to whom these things belong that I am with child. Please verify," she added, "whose seal and cord and whose staff these are."
26 Juda les reconnut et dit: “Elle est plus juste que moi, car je ne lui ai pas donné mon fils Chéla.” Mais ensuite il n’eut plus de rapports avec elle.	26 Judah recognized them and said, "She is more in the right than I am, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." But he had no further relations with her.
27 Quand arriva le temps où elle devait accoucher, il y avait deux jumeaux dans son ventre.	27 When the time of her delivery came, she was found to have twins in her womb.
28 Tandis qu’elle accouchait, l’un d’eux sortit une main; l’accoucheuse la prit et y attacha un fil de couleur rouge en disant: “Celui-ci est sorti le premier.”	28 While she was giving birth, one infant put out his hand; and the midwife, taking a crimson thread, tied it on his hand, to note that this one came out first.
29 Mais il rentra sa main et c’est son frère qui sortit. Elle dit alors: “Quelle brèche tu as faite!” Et l’on donna à l’enfant le nom de Pérès.	29 But as he withdrew his hand, his brother came out; and she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" So he was called Perez.
30 Ensuite sortit son frère qui avait à sa main le fil rouge; on lui donna le nom de Zérah.	30 Afterward his brother came out; he was called Zerah.